Tag: Transportation
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Uber heads to court, battles TfL in fight for survival
Uber will defend its right to operate in London in a court hearing on Monday after regulator Transport for London (TfL) deemed the app unfit to run a taxi service and stripped off its licence in its most important European market. Regulator TfL shocked the Silicon Valley firm by rejecting its licence renewal bid in…
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Uber: Ride-hailing app records 5 billion rides milestone
Uber Technologies said on Thursday that the ride-sharing services company had completed 5 billion rides, as of May 20. The news comes after a string of setbacks for the privately held firm, including the resignation of Chief Executive Travis Kalanick last week. Uber, which was founded in 2010, said 156 trips started at the same…
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2 top tech execs announces exit from Trump advisory councils
Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk and Walt Disney Co CEO Robert Iger said on Thursday they would leave White House advisory councils after US President Donald Trump said he would withdraw from the Paris climate accord. Trump decided to pull the United States from the landmark 2015 global agreement designed to fight climate…
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Uber fires former Google engineer at heart of self-driving car dispute
Uber Technologies Inc said on Tuesday it fired the technology whiz it had hired to lead its self-driving unit, Anthony Levandowski, after he failed to comply with a court order to hand over documents at the centre of a legal dispute between Uber and Alphabet Inc’s Waymo unit. Uber had hoped Levandowski, one the most…
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Uber threatens to fire self-driving car engineer in Waymo Case
Uber has threatened to fire an engineer accused by Alphabet self-driving Waymo unit of stealing confidential documents in a high profile trade secrets case between the two companies, according to a court filing. Waymo sued ride services company Uber Technologies alleging that former Waymo executive Anthony Levandowski downloaded over 14,000 confidential documents before leaving Waymo…